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SW 20 & Over Club
If you are doing hypo you need a refractometer. A hydrometer isn't dependable or accurate enough to successfully keep your salinity at 1.009.
If you are doing hypo you need a refractometer. A hydrometer isn't dependable or accurate enough to successfully keep your salinity at 1.009.
redsea said:Great, thanks! I will hopefully order it later on today.
Is it still ok to do a water change and start lowering the salinity a little bit?
As much as you want...The key is to get it to 1.009 within 36 hours..I have always instantly put fish into conditions hypo with no issues
I'm sure you could get it down to 1.014 using your hydrometer and be in the safe zone.
Some believe it will adapt if taken down to slowly..Not sure if i believe that or not..
Lowering it will only help ,so i say go as low as you feel comfortable with a hydrometer ..You can get glass floating refractometers too,,9 bucks or sao at any LFS
This is the only way that i see,,but like i said, i always put the fish right in hypo,so i just made my water 1.008 and filled up the QTCool, never heard of the glass floating refractometers before.
So at the very least I will move over the fish from LA to this tank, and mess with some rock today.
About how many gallons of freshwater does it take to get the salinity around 1.009? Or is it just "add and test" to see where you are at?
Thanks!
Good decision! I was hoping you would stop worrying so much about the ich. Once it's ich free you can do stuff to keep iot from coming back so as long as you qt you should be fine.
How about some pictures of where you are at? I know they won't be mind blowing shots at this point, but still nice to see what you have going on.
Lawnmowers are awesome! I'm still sad I lost mine in the 125g but i do have another one that i will add when I break down the 2 small tanks for the 60g.
This new lawnmower only eats algae so far, my last one ate everything, brine, clams everything. lol